Drain Plug? How is this supposed to work?

[gpinkerton]

This is the drain plug on late 50s Arkansas Traveler, 14 footer. Can someone tell me how this drain plug functions? It looks like it should open like a faucet, but the "cap" is seized. I would appreciate some insight and ideas!

 

[QBhoy]

Someone will be along shortly to suggest something that I might be thinking, but hesitant to say, haha. But in 40 years around boats, I’ve never seen a drain plug like this one.

 

[roscoe]

Its quite possible that the boat did not come with a drain. Or it went bad.

Looks like someone attached a garboard plug, then lost the plug and used something that would fit ???

 

[robert graham]

Maybe a through hull depth finder probe?....

 

[Scott Danforth]

your 50's arkansas traveler would have had a threaded plug (about 3/8" npt or smaller - with a wing-nut top) on the inside of a flange riveted to the floor with a clamshell under it.

not sure what that bolted contraption is because "it aint original"

 

[DC in MI]

I'm sure it's been resolved by now, but, fwiw, here's the plug on the AT I brought home the other day.